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Circular economy and Collaborative Networks: The Future of Asset Management
The global economy is shifting toward sustainability, driven by environmental urgency, regulatory demands, and evolving consumer expectations. Businesses are increasingly adopting circular economy principles, moving away from the linear “take, make, waste” model to systems that extend product lifecycles, minimize waste, and optimize resource use [Rejeb et al., 2025]. This transition aligns with the rise of Industry 5.0 (I5.0), which prioritizes sustainability, resilience, and human-centric collaboration. The integration of circular
Back on SemEval 16th edition task n°8
Find about our work on SemEval task n°1: reverse dictionary SemEval is a series of international Natural Language Processing (NLP) research workshops whose mission is to advance the current state of the art in semantic analysis and to help create high-quality annotated datasets in a range of increasingly challenging problems in natural language semantics. Each
Back on SemEval 16th edition task n°1
SemEval is a series of international Natural Language Processing (NLP) research workshops whose mission is to advance the current state of the art in semantic analysis and to help create high-quality annotated datasets in a range of increasingly challenging problems in natural language semantics. Each year’s workshop features a collection of shared tasks in which
Neolink: Lifelong pathway recommendation model
Find information about the project’s challenges by following this link. Neolink is a company created in 2012 which developed solution to encourage the internet that brings together. Its main objective is to unify economic activity and social utility in its solutions. The company has been bought by Berger-Levrault in 2019. Social services are notoriously complex
Wi-Filles Project
Wi-filles is an induction programme to promote digital occupations to teenager girls. If we look at figures, there are only 21,5% of women workers in this area and only 20% in digital studies field. That’s why, the FACE foundation started the Wi-Filles project in 2014. The goal of the project is to encourage young girls
Neolink: Lifelong pathway recommendation challenges
Neolink is a company created in 2012 which developed solution to encourage the internet that brings together. Its main objective is to unify economic activity and social utility in its solutions. The company has been bought by Berger-Levrault in 2019. Social services are notoriously complex to model and manage. It is essential to turn to
Equipment 3D visualization in a CMMS application-1st part
Computer-aided maintenance systems aim at assisting administration and maintenance agents in their missions of assets maintenance (building, network, air conditioning, faucets, etc). Assets may have different representations in different geospatial data sources (2D or 3D) that can help to have a better understanding of them by providing new information. Though, using those data often leads
Mono2Micro-MDE : An end-to-end approach towards migrating a monolithic application towards a microservice-oriented architecture
Find the first migration approach in these articles: article 1 & article 2 In this section, we introduce a broad overview of the different phases which constitute our global MDE-based migration workflow. In short, our workflow (see Figure 1) encompasses 4 important steps : Extracting a model from the source application. Identifying the application’s candidate
Image analysis for Maintenance intervention request classification
Technologies and systems for automation of maintenance tasks and equipment management are used in several cases of different business fields like security or food-processing industry for instance. The technologies used have reached a maturation stage allowing their use in real case, according to practical application specificity. However, it remains uncertainties about developing an approach allowing
Backend monolithic app to microservices architecture migration – 2nd part
Find the first part of the article by following this link In the first part article, we’ve explained how to identify microservices candidates by extracting the layered architecture artifacts from the existing code of a monolithic application. Several approaches address this first step, though they either do not address the materialization step or complete this
BL.Conecta, the future kernel of city’s intermediation platforms?
Context Since few years, we observe the rise of intermediation platforms and web services consumption used through these multitude of platforms. The fact is that intermediation environments put in relation a producer/seller with a web user/consumer to enable a transaction (sales, exchange, share of products or services) that create value. Intermediation platforms are used as
ICPC – 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil)
Forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics – VIS 2025 (Vienna – Austria)
IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)
Camille Dupré Ph.D. thesis defense: “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”
Thursday 18th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Camille Dupré, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Pad-based Interaction in Mixed Reality environments”. Her thesis defense took place at the LISN, in Gif-sur-Yvette (660 Av. des Sciences Bâtiment, 91190), France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Mixed Reality (MR) environments integrate virtual elements into
Nihed Bendahman Ph.D. thesis defense: “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”
Monday 15th December at 2p.m. Paris time, Nihed Bendahman, Ph.D. Candidate has defended her thesis named “Evaluation and mitigation of hallucinations in automatic summarization in the specific context of legal documents”. Her thesis defense took place at the IRIT Research Laboratory, in Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Summary Legal monitoring is a
Gabriel Darbord Ph.D. thesis defense: “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”
Friday 5th December at 9a.m. Paris time, Gabriel Darbord, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Automatic test generation to help modernize our applications”. His thesis defense took place in Lille, France. Take a look at the summary below. This thesis is fully in line with the partnership between Berger-Levrault and Inria, which aims to
Berger-Levrault strengthens its ties with AI startups!
We are proud to announce that we have joined Hub France IA, the largest association dedicated to artificial intelligence in France. This network now brings together more than 250 members—companies, startups, research laboratories, and institutions—who share the same goal: to accelerate the development and adoption of AI in France and Europe. Getting closer to the
Celebrating New PhDs from the BL.Research Team!
At Berger-Levrault, research is more than a mission—it’s a shared adventure. As the new academic year begins, we are proud to celebrate the success of four of our colleagues from the BL.Research team, who have reached a major milestone in their scientific journeys: the defense of their doctoral theses. These achievements are the result of
Hamza Safri Ph.D. thesis defense: “Federated learning for the IoT : Application for Industry 4.0”
Thuesday 24th June at 3pm Paris time, Hamza Safri, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Federated learning for the IoT: Application for Industry 4.0”. His thesis defense took place at the Inria Minatec Grenoble, Grenoble, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Model generalization, predictive maintenance, industrial IoT, federated learning, edge network,
ESUG 2025: Six contributions and 2 prizes for the Software Engineering Lab team!
Congratulations to our PhDs Nicolas Hlad, Aless Hosry, Benoit Verhaeghe and Pascal Zaragoza from Berger-Levrault’s BL.Research team for their participation in the 2025 edition of the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) conference! This year’s conference took place from July 1-4 in Gdansk, Poland. The theme was innovation in Smalltalk technologies and their use in software
Julien Breton Ph.D. thesis defense: “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”
Friday, 27th June at 1.30 pm Paris time, Julien Breton, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”. His thesis defense took place at the IRIT research laboratory, Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Legal compliance,Industrial maintenance, Norm extraction,LLM (Large
